Take control over your Samsung Navibot with this sketch for an ESP8266. Uses MQTT client from knolleary (https://github.com/knolleary/pubsubclient)
Ever wanted to control your Samsung Navibot via Domoticz? This is a first step in that direction. In the Navibot is enough place to put a ESP8266 in one of the cavities. By controlling the tactile switches you get control over the Navibot. The tactile switches are controlled by 2N2222 transistors. The transistors in turn are controlled by the ESP8266.
In this version only two switches are controlled: start/stop and recharge. That seems to be enough to take basic control over the Navibot.
Domoticz senses our absense from the house and issues a start/stop command via a virtual switch. The Navibot reads the MQTT command and shorts the tactile switch through the transistor. The Navibot starts. When Domoticz senses that somebody came home, it issues a start/stop command to stop the Navibot and after that it issues a recharge command via another virtual switch. Both commands are detected by the Navibot and the two switches are shorted one after the other. The Navibot returns to it's station.
One other convienent feature is that once the sketch is uploaded, it can be updated via OTA (Over The Air).
See the wiki-pages of this repository: (https://github.com/richardvdweerd/Navibot-Control/wiki)
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